Grey's unique series, The Sacred Mirrors, examine in detail the physical and metaphysical anatomy of an individual. These works of art are reproduced in Grey's book, Sacred Mirrors, The Visionary Art of Alex Grey. His artwork has been exhibited worldwide, including the New Museum in NYC, the Grand Palais in Paris, the Sao Paulo Biennial, and the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art.

The co-inventor of Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), is a professor at the University of Southern California's School of Cinema and Television. He is the author of Vrml: Browsing and Building Cyberspace, and Vrml: Flying Through the Web (with George Maestri).

Acclaimed poet and novelist received the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Color Purple. She has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her bestselling novels include Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar. Her most recent novel, By the Light of My Father's Smile, is Alice Walker's celebration of sexuality, and its usefulness in accessing one's mature spirituality.

Founder and President of DigitalSpace Corporation, a research organization dedicated to the development of inhabited multi-user virtual worlds. Bruce has completed a new book Avatars, Exploring and Building Virtual Worlds in the Internet. He is a visiting scholar at the University of Washington Human Interface Technology Laboratory.

Is an internationally known innovator of sound that calls forth archetypal experiences accessing the more profound levels of the mind-body-spirit. Demby is a multi-instrumentalist, painter, schuptor, and instrument designer. She concieved and constructed the Sonic Steel Instrument, The Space Bass, and the Whale Sail (huge sheets of stainless steel played wiith bows), which generate deep, resonate, primordial sounds.

Is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University where she teaches film and video production, experimental theater, contemporary art, and the politics of travel. She is the recipient of the 1996 Maya Deren Award of the American Film Institute and the 1995 Albert Foundation Award of the California Institute of the Arts. Her works include Adynatas (1983) and the Peggy and Fred Series (1985-present). Her current project, the Great Invisible, is the story of the Victorian traveler and adventuress Isabelle Eberhardt.

Is a self-avowed independent film director who projects European cinematic traditions onto retro, trampled American landscapes. Jarmusch studied at New York University's film school under Nicholas Ray. Jarmusch has won a Camera d'Or at Cannes and has established himself as a rare American auteur. A favorite trope is the foreigner on a pilgrimage through a new landscape, surrounded by uncommunicative and dysfunctional eccentrics. Jim Jarmusch wrote and directed "Stranger Than Paradise," "Down By Law," "Mystery Train," "Dead Man," "Year of the Horse," and the forthcoming "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai."

Is the founder of Survival Research Laboratories, an organization of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations. SRL stages presentations consisting of a unique set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and special effects devices, employed in developing themes of socio-political satire.

Steina and Woody Vasulka, key figures in the history of video art, have been working in the medium since the 1960s. In 1971 the Vasulkas founded the Kitchen, a space devoted to electronic media, video, cinema, music and perfornmsnce, which has had a significant impact on the alternative scene in New York. With Steina, Woody has been artist in residence at the National Center for Experiments in Television (NCET), at KQED in San Francisco, and at WNET/Thirteen in New York. Woody has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the Guggenheim Foundation. His recent video installations include Theater of Hybrid Automata (1990) and The Brotherhood series (1998). Steina's recent work focuses on the Southwest desert landscape, and has produced major multiscreen installations, such as Scapes (1986), Ptolemy(1986) and Geomania (1989). She has recieved the Maya Deren Award from The American Film Institute and the Siemens Media Art Prize. The Philadelpia Museum of Art recently featured a major retrospective of her work.

Has written articles about sex for Penthouse, Hustler, Arts Magazine, Utne Reader, and The Drama Revue. Her writings have appeared in several books, among them Angry Women, Ritual Sex, and Whores and Feminists. She makes beautiful paintings using her breasts as brushes called Tit Prints. At present she is completing a documentary titled Orgasm Scrapbook.

The Fantastic Realism of Robert Venosa has been exhibited worldwide and is represented in major collections. In addition to painting and sculpture, he is involved in film design. He has created pre-sketches and conceptual design for the films Dune, Fire in the Sky, and Race for Atlantis for IMAX. His work has been the subject of three books, and has been featured in OMNI magazine, and on a number of CD covers, including those of Santana and Kitaro.

Internationally renowned film director and screenwriter. He directed The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, and The Great Santini. His screenwriting credits include Seconds (with Rock Hudson), directed by John Frankenheimer. He received an Academy Awards nomination for best screenplay for I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977).

Works in the intersection of live music and interactive audio-visual performance. From 1995 to 1998 he was the curator of the music program of the prestigious contemporary art center The Kitchen, in New York City. His albums include Green Machine, originally presented as an interactive multimedia installation at the prestigious Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, and Trypticals.

Is a best-selling novelist known for his unusual plots and style. His first novel, Another Roadside Attraction, was followed by Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, which was made into a movie in 1993 by Gus Van Sant. His widely acclaimed novels include: Skinny Legs and All, and Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas.